[Radiance-general] 2.5-phase method and gendaymtx

[Axel Jacobs]

Andy, Greg,

thanks for clarifying this.  I've learned a lot tonight.  It's time for 
me to go to bed.  Thank you all for your help and feedback.  Talk tomorrow.

Best

Axel

On 07/02/14 01:28, Greg Ward wrote:
> That's right.  With genskyvec, you would give the -s option to gensky,
> instead.  And although there's no reason to specify the sky color with
> -d, since there is no sky, setting it after -d in genskyvec doesn't turn
> the sky back on like it does in gendaymtx.
>
> -Greg
>
>> *From: *Andrew McNeil <amcneil at lbl.gov <mailto:amcneil at lbl.gov>>
>>
>> *Date: *February 6, 2014 5:21:05 PM PST
>>
>> *
>> *
>>
>> There's no -5 or -s option for genskyvec. And from what I can tell the
>> -d and -c options operate differently in genskyvec, so that -c doesn't
>> negate -d.
>>
>> Greg, am I right?
>>
>> Andy
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Axel Jacobs <jacobs.axel at gmail.com
>> <mailto:jacobs.axel at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi Andy,
>>
>>     thanks for sharing this.  I did realise that -c affected the sky,
>>     but left it in there just in case.  Would you happen to know
>>     whether genskyvec works exactly the same way as gendaymtx with
>>     regards to -d, -5, -s, -c?
>>
>>     Regards
>>
>>     Axel
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     On 07/02/14 00:18, Andrew McNeil wrote:
>>
>>         Axel,
>>
>>         This line of your script may be the cause of your problem:
>>
>>             gendaymtx -5 -d -m $REINHART -c 1 1 1 -O1 $WEA > $dsmx
>>
>>
>>         -d works by changing the sky color to 0 0 0. Then the -c
>>         option later in
>>         your command negates the -d option by changing the sky color
>>         to 1 1 1.
>>
>>         I only know this because I made this mistake in a script I
>>         sent to Rick.
>>         Rick discovered that it wasn't working and Greg told us how
>>         gendaymtx
>>         actually works.
>>
>>         Andy
>>
>>
>>
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